George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And libertarians think of government as this pathetic, developmentally delayed problem child that is just constantly getting in the way and needs to just be put in the corner so that the smart people –
can do their thing.
And now it's, I think that thinking is much stronger because it's become so partisan.
The most powerful people in Silicon Valley have decided that the party of government, the Democratic Party, is this stupid and wicked organization that needs to be put in the corner so that they can save the world.
And
make a lot of money and defeat China in the AI race and everything else.
So I think they have a messianic sense of their own mission and,
And now they're driven by a really spiteful partisan bias that says any government intrusion.
I used to hear they were willing to accept some regulation 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
It wasn't like they thought all regulation was bad.
Mark Andreessen said it's going to come.
We have to accept some of it now.
Marc Andreessen and others see regulation as being suicide.
So those ingredients, I mean, they're so successful and they're so isolated from the country.
They live in such a splendid kingdom that it's hard for them to imagine what could be the problem.
Far worse.
Far worse.
That's just right.
Again, a big theme of the emergency.
There is a sense of exhaustion with being human.
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